RELIEF: Specialists

Out of 57 WPAsters wielding picks & shovels on a ditch-digging project
in New York City's Bronx, 38 walked off the job one day last week and
refused to labor more. Their reason: working with either pick or shovel
was hard enough, but to ask any man to use these tools interchangeably
(i.e., without a chance to rest while another worker plied
the other tool) was "inhuman." Result: one man discharged, one
suspended, interchangeable picking & shoveling resumed.